By Matty Edwards, Hannah Vickers Arvind Howarth on 12th March, 2020

There’s already so much great work being done across the city to find solutions. Here’s just a few …

Bristol Redistro: rethinking how to best use your spare cash

What do you do if you’re lucky enough to inherit more money than you need and care about positive change? This is what Alex Whitburn and his friends have been grappling with. “By talking through how all this felt, and knowing that we all want to see real, systemic changes in the world, and to be part of challenging the injustices that surround us, we were able to come up with this possibly crazy plan.”

What plan? To fund small grassroots organisations that “use their lived experience to challenge injustices”, and are looking for long-term solutions. Bristol Redistro is targeting smaller projects – those with an annual turnover of £25,000 or less – because there are already more funding opportunities for bigger organisations. 
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Bristol Cable included is in their list of ​Bristol solutions: https://thebristolcable.org/2020/03/bristol-a-city-of-solutions/

By APHRA EVANS, Thursday Feb 20, 2020

A new non-profit, Bristol Redistro, hopes to use individual donations to fund community-led groups that fall short of traditional funding criteria.

The aim of the project is to challenge the power structures created by funding streams by redistributing individual surplus wealth to small-scale projects and giving them the power to decide how funds are shared out.

We were featured in Bristol 247. You can read the full article here:

www.bristol247.com/business/news-business/bristol-redistro-offers-funding-to-grassroots-projects-fighting-for-social-change/

We are now open for applications! Do you know of any community groups led by people facing discrimination who need funding for their projects? If so, please help us spread the word. 

Bristol Redistro’s core aim is to challenge the unfair power structures that cause inequality and injustice, and to create positive alternatives. To do this we are raising money to support the struggles, fights, campaigns and projects of groups and communities facing discrimination (due to their class, ability, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexuality, age, immigration status or other factors) who are therefore most affected by these power structures.

We not only aim to redistribute money, but also power. People who have money to give away get to choose which causes are important and which deserve their money. This gives them a lot of power. We want to take the decision-making power away from those with money by letting the groups that have applied for the money decide themselves how it is shared out. By bringing groups together we also hope to give people working on different issues the opportunity to make new contacts and learn from each other. 

You can find out more about us, our funding criteria, how to apply and how we approach funding differently on the following pages: 
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• About us 
• Funding criteria
• How to apply
• How it works

We have raised enough to invite applications but we would like to raise more, if you're able to donate, please get in touch. This is also a pilot project and we welcome people's feedback, ideas and involvement. ​